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Overview

Peter Gibbon is a researcher affiliated with the Danish Institute for International Studies in Denmark. Their work spans multiple fields within the social sciences and computer science, with particular contributions to the understanding of economic and cultural development.

Their research primarily addresses topics including:

  • Economic Growth and Development
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • African history and culture studies
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development

Peter Gibbon's main fields of study are:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Subfields of study include:

  • Information Systems
  • Demography
  • Anthropology
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their recent publications include:

  • "Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920-74" (2024) published in The Economic History Review
  • "What drove the profitability of colonial firms? Labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920-74)" (2022) published in the Working Paper Series

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Sam Jones
  • Samuel Jones

Peter Gibbon's work has appeared mainly in the following publication venues:

  • The Economic History Review
  • Working Paper Series

Best Publications

  • Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains

    Stefano Ponte;Peter Gibbon

  • Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains And The Global Economy

    Peter Gibbon;Stefano Ponte

  • Governing global value chains: an introduction

    Peter Gibbon;Jennifer Bair;Stefano Ponte

  • The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa

    Simon Bolwig;Peter Gibbon;Sam Jones;Sam Jones

  • Upgrading Primary Production: A Global Commodity Chain Approach

    Peter Gibbon

  • New Challenges for Developing Country Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains: A Comparative European Perspective

    Florence Palpacuer;Peter Gibbon;Lotte Thomsen

  • Competition and Coordination in Liberalized African Cotton Market Systems

    Colin Poulton;Peter Gibbon;Benjamine Hanyani-Mlambo;Jonathan Kydd

  • Global value chains: from governance to governmentality?

    Peter Gibbon;Stefano Ponte

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and general psychopathology in children and adolescents following a wildfire disaster.

    Brett M McDermott;Erica M Lee;Marianne Judd;Peter Gibbon

  • Global Commodity Chains and African Export Agriculture

    Benoit Daviron;Peter Gibbon

  • Private Sector Development: Policies, Practices and Problems

    Lau Schulpen;Peter Gibbon

  • Value-chain Governance, Public Regulation and Entry Barriers in the Global Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Chain into the EU

    Peter Gibbon

  • A Blighted Harvest: The World Bank & African Agriculture in the 1980s

    Peter Gibbon;Kjell J. Havnevik;Kenneth Hermele

  • The African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Global Commodity Chain for Clothing

    Peter Gibbon

  • Governance, Entry Barriers, Upgrading: A Re-Interpretation of Some GVC Concepts from the Experience of African Clothing Exports

    Peter Gibbon

  • Governing through standards : origins, drivers and limitations

    Stefano. Ponte;Peter. Gibbon;Jakob Vestergaard

  • The third person effect: Social distance and perceived media bias

    Peter Gibbon;Kevin Durkin

  • Developing Agricultural Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Organic Cocoa in Rural Uganda

    Sam Jones;Peter Gibbon

  • Governing through Standards

    Stefano Ponte;Peter Gibbon;Jakob Vestergaard

  • ‘Globalisation’ and African export crop agriculture

    Philip Raikes;Peter Gibbon

  • Authoritarianism, democracy and adjustment : the politics of economic reform in Africa

    Arve Ofstad;Yusuf Bangura;Peter Gibbon

  • Agro‐Commodity Chains

    Peter Gibbon

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Ponte
Stefano Ponte Copenhagen Business School
David L. Tschirley
David L. Tschirley Michigan State University

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